SEN Learning Support Team Leader
Longspee Academy, Poole, Dorset, BH17 8PJ4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
3 September 2025
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Pro-rata salary £34,504 - £37,246 (£40,476 - £43,693 Full time Equivalent)
SEN Learning Support Team Leader job summary
Longspee Secondary Academy is a specialist provision for students aged 11-16 with SEMH with Autism, and complex needs, and we work together as a community to ensure that our students have the best journey into adulthood. We offer a rich and high-quality learning experience, supporting our young people to become independent, successful and confident adults, with a relentless and positive focus upon Happy, Safe, Progress.
In support of ongoing excellence in Learning Support and Inclusion, we are seeking to employ an enthusiastic, excellent, compassionate and experienced member of staff.
As the Learning Support Team Leader within Longspee Secondary, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring high-quality Inclusion and Pastoral support, to empower and enable progress and aspiration. You will be managing a team of people, working in partnership to ensure positive outcomes for all students. The role will require close working with the school community, and in particular the Classroom Team, SENDCo and the Senior Leadership Team, to develop and enhance positive school-wide approaches.
To be successful at Longspee Secondary, you will need to demonstrate a high-quality flexible and dynamic approach to learning and progress, whilst being creative, open and authentic in your communication. Knowledge and experience of working with secondary pupils with additional needs would be an advantage, though the ability to make, understand and sustain positive relationships, whilst leading with compassion, understanding and clarity, is key.
You will be happily resourceful and creative, highly resilient and adaptable, able to work excellently as a member of a successful team, demonstrate highly developed interpersonal skills and have a good sense of positive humour/perspective. In addition, you will be highly organised and have excellent communication skills, with a deep understanding that success at Longspee is achieved by developing the success and independence of others. You may also have skills, interests, or an area of knowledge that you will want inspire others with.
We are looking for candidates who are passionate and ambitious with a drive and commitment to improve the life chances of our students and the wider community, with a dynamic, exceptional and creative approach to ensuring progress. We look forward to hearing from you.
What We have to Offer:
- A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
- A strong support network both within the school and across Authentic Education.
- All staff are part of a professional learning community in which evidence-informed CPD is designed to meet individual needs.
- Strong potential for career progression.
- A culture that respects work-life balance and an ongoing commitment to wellbeing with a dedicated Wellbeing Champion.
- An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.
- Staff benefits include free eye testing for DSE users through Specsavers, free will writing through Dunham McCarthy Solicitors and reduced price corporate gym membership through BH Live.
- A competitive pension through Teachers’ Pensions or The Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff.
Should you wish to arrange a visit or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Alison Evans, HR Academy Lead at alison.evans@la.weareauthentic.education
Together we are Courageous, Innovative, Excellent
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Longspee Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- 117 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
School location
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